Funniest. Shit. Ever.

(a shout-out to jhm over at Free Exchange on Campus for this nugget)

Allow me to set the scene: George Leef has worked feverishly through the night, devastating the dread beast of whiteness studies (and its ideological brethern in the pantheon of cultural studies) with his pithy bon mots. He's worked himself into a lather, linking the Bolshevist, racist vanguards of the academy to those who would impede the peaceful and beneficial workings of the free market, all in the name of identity politics. Without even the faintest shred of irony, he pens his penultimate paragraph:

“Whiteness” is a useless explanation for a real problem – the fact that it’s possible for people to use the coercive power of the state to obtain unearned wealth and power for themselves. In modern America, organized interest groups routinely importune politicians for favors and privileges, and race has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Occupational groups, for instance, lobby for anticompetitive regulations that keep newcomers off what they regard as their turf. An inherent weakness in democracy makes it quite feasible for groups of people with mutual economic interests to benefit at the expense of others. In the distant past, race was sometimes used as the excuse for such enactments, but today interest groups rely on different rationales, such as “consumer protection.” The problem to be investigated and confronted is not “whiteness,” but rather what Frederic Bastiat called “legal plunder.”

I give to you George Leef: White Guy, Rugged Individualist, Non-beneficiary of Coercive State Power.